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There's also Del.icio.us as a collection/curation platform somewhere between Twitter and Tumblr.

Kiwi is fun because Facebook would never do a 4sq or Instagram connect for their timeline.

Pinterest is a design oriented pin-board which focuses on curation not creation like Thumblr.

It takes all sorts of people to make this world :) Since this is start-up news site I'd think we're more hot-blooded and non-corporate coders who might appear incompetent to you, but we make stuff happen in days instead of weeks and we like to make tools and sites.

Me being a co-founder of a start-up too, any insight on hiring that gives us a better chance to get good coders is worth a post on HN :)

Talent Acquire Silicon Valley startups on their pessimistic side of startup roller-coaster, just make sure they've build scalable stuff but were unable to scale the business.

I think that companies like Pinterest don't need lone wolf type of developers, but should look to buy whole shops of quality developers who are currently in the wrong business, but have the brain to architecture and scale.

His Stanford class few years back made a few millions in a few months and a few million dollar start-ups :) just by making tiny Facebook apps. Don't know exact names, but I'm sure Google will.

Sure. Sorry for bad link.

http://bjfogg.com/ http://captology.stanford.edu/ http://behaviorgrid.org/ http://behaviormodel.org/ - this model is powerful and makes zillions for ones who know how to apply it to their products

More on behavior design can be learned from BJ Fogg of Stanford at http://tinyhabits.com/

I designed more then 10 of my habits this way and they stick.

Which reminds me of a pattern I've seen in God father, with my ex boss and some Silicon Valley middle age hot-shots: they all think they're gonna live forever. But the time is ticking and new generation is coming quicker than ever. This makes me happy.

garry: no accounts, everything in a link, fully client side. But we'd be curious to see your Instagram connected, which only you can do.

We liked the Facebook timeline, but it felt a little claustrophobic.

Low or non-existing SEO and a thing that everybody knows. No New Zealand, but we'd like to go there :)

log being all things and timeline being important things ?

some recent postcards remind me on 4chan/b/

I think that individual code design culture comes from trying many languages and different use cases, picking up the best practices on the way. I remember using Pascal and then acknowledging that "begin" and "end" are better expressed with curly braces in C. When using Delphi I learnt a lot of OOP principles so I could later easily pickup Java and took some good habits from there also, later came PHP where I started noticing vertical readability is important, so when I saw Python I was stunned. Functional programming hit me, but not so hard, because I used AutoCAD LISP years ago and it felt natural. Trough the years I started to notice new things I would need in my daily coding and I found nirvana when I saw Ruby.

After years of coding one develops their coding personality that they're happy with and I think their code has just a right mix of carelessness and precision which could be never learned from a script kiddie book.

This includes also my 10 proof-of-concept test apps. And I bet I'm not the only one.

Since JavaScript has 64-bit floating points you could use simpler Spherical law of Cosines (cos c = cos a cos b + sin a sin b cos C) instead of Haversine to calculate distance.

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Thx for the vote of confidence for DoubleRecall. I think that this is an interesting idea but there are lots of obstacles to cross with any engagement ads, so it's definitely an agility test for the concept and the team, not so much about which product is the best. The one who gets the flag with any engagement product will be big bucks :) and we're running and jumping hard.

we hear you. SolveMedia has video, I'm not sure about engagement quality on that.

In brand advertising, it's all about exposure. Even one with no money to buy the article (or maybe not enough interest/motivation) can spread the word or endorse the brand to the ones who have money.

According to BJ Fogg of Stanford on Simplicity, one person is always floating in cartesian plane with time/money changing all the time and being a function of age, location, time of day.

One might have time and is not prepared to spend money and vice versa. And this can change during the day. So, if one gets a brand exposure in the morning when they have spare time to re-type two brand words, they might not have time in the afternoon when they're located at brand outlet, so they'll spend money.

Make a deal with HipMunk to show your long-haul ride-shares (if they exist) as a last hit on their flight search :)

oauth would have request replay prevention or there could be some other ways of stopping the count fraud, but app_secret is probably always available in some kind of readable form. This is just an aspect of mobile security we have to live with. Facebook 3 party sign-on helps a little here because one could check requests server-side against valid temporary FB keys. But Fukime cow counter could easily do without those :)

I wonder, who's playing with the post title :D he must like fukime, and I bet it's not just because of the cool name :)

Parse is definitely more versatile and targeted to power-users that don't have time to implement server side ORM, user management, pushes & such. Very high-tech.

Fukime might be more like candy machine for prototyping and developers who want to make things happen quickly and just focus on client development.

Am I missing something here ? We do this using screen/screen -x

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Protocol Buffers are versatile, allowing nesting and includes but performance we got on Java server and PHP/iOS client was pretty poor and PHP libraries do not support whole specification.

So we switched to Thrift and whole FB stack with HipHop and Scribe and we're thrilled. Documentation is a problem just at the beginning when setting up the stack. Everything else later is self explanatory.